“El Chapo” the infamous drug lord is battling more than just extradition to the US, he’s also got his own lawyers battling one another. Having a legal team in-fighting is not the most helpful characteristic of a successful legal defense of any kind, but Joaquin Guzman has had two of his attorneys file an appeal […]
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How “super” are the ‘Super Lawyers’? How ‘rising’ are the legal stars? And are the “best lawyers” really best? These are issues that arise as as result of the plethora of awards and lists compiled by the legal media that have prompted a New Jersey committee charged with the responsibility of considering ethical advertising to
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel financed the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker, along with other lawsuits against the gossip site. Many have asked ‘Why?’ Thiel, a former lawyer and Supreme Court clerk who went on to make billions as co-founder of PayPal among other ventures, said he regarded his financing of lawsuits against the scandal
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Cravath partner and Leader of the Firm’s International Practice Mark I. Greene was featured as a “Dealmaker of the Year” in the April issue of The American Lawyer. Mark is one of 10 lawyers in the country selected by the publication for their work on last year’s most innovative and interesting corporate transactions. The feature article highlighted
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LeClair Ryan – The mayor of San Francisco recently signed the Paid Parental Leave Ordinance, a law that gives workers in the city the most generous parental leave benefits in the country. Covered employees will have the right to take up to six weeks of paid leave to bond with a newborn child, newly adopted
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Attorney Jeffrey Greenberg, a Tuscon lawyer, has pleaded guilty in a $33-million real estate scheme in California that a federal prosecutor described as “extraordinary fraud.” Greenberg, 66, and Courtland Gettel, 42, of Coronado, California, pleaded guilty May 17 to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of
Cloud computing has become commonplace for businesses, but lawyers remain reluctant to make the move to the cloud, according to a report from Jeff Chandler in Law Technology Today. Jeff Chandler is President of American Technology Services and reports that the cloud migration “end-user spending” is expected to exceed $180 billion by the
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LawFuel.com – News about the law – Evgeny Buryakov, a/k/a “Zhenya,” Who Worked For Russian Intelligence Under “Non-Official Cover” As A Banker In Manhattan, Was Also Ordered To Pay A $10,000 Fine And Ordered Removed From The United States Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
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Leading Tech and Life Sciences Law Firm Addresses Growing Client Demand in New York Mountain View, CA (May 24, 2016) – Fenwick & West, the leading technology and life sciences law firm, today announced that it will launch its New York office in June. The firm will bolster its service offering to the New York
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Could it be true. Kids of 3 and 4 representing themselves in immigration proceedings? Such as the little guy in the video above, who has a special message for the judge who claimed these young kids should represent themselves. True. Immigration Judge Jack H. Weil, whose responsibilities include training judges, deposed that that 3- and
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